CCDE Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CCDE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCDE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.034% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.075% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
South East median daily rate £400 £575 -
% change year-on-year -30.43% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

CCDE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,331 555 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 45.82% 36.85% 41.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 323 600
10th Percentile £300 £307 £213
25th Percentile £395 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 32 110
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.12 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £32.05 £41.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +5.48% -5.53%
75th Percentile £85.63 £70.00 £70.47
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.35 £87.05
South East median hourly rate £53.25 £56.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year -6.17% -1.05% +3.80%

CCDE
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCDE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

CCDE job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CCDE
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCDE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCDE

CCDE
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCDE within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 1 £400 - 1
CCDE
South East

CCDE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto